>boring gameplay>bad graphicsHow did millions of normalfag goyim get tricked into playing these shitty games?
>>12684853edge lord hype, you get to be a mass shooter
MOM! I POSTED ANOTHER "GAME YOU LIKE IS BAD" THREAD!
>>12684861If you like this slop, you don't belong here.
>>12684853gta3 was revolutionary at the time for the amount of freedom you had to do what the fuck ever in a 3D open world.vice city was a refined version of the same so it was also loved.San Andreas added a bunch of extra shit to make the whole thing seem more complete and full-featured.they are objectively kind of mediocre but the innovations of gta3 gave the series enough cred to coast for a couple games and stay loved.
>>12684853Wrong pic uploaded? because you did described the N64 as a whole
>>12684875>do what the fuck ever in a 3D open world.you could do nothing actually
>>12684853you might be too young for this board
>>12684883>zoomgroids who grew up with PS2 and GTA are posting here nowgrim
>>12684853Shenmue mogged
>>12684853They were babby's first open world slop. GTA is objectively terrible but playing them as a child blew my fucking mind and melted my face off.I couldn't believe the amount of freedom it gave you. It's 100% the novelty of being able to go anywhere and kill anyone.
These games are a litmus test for goyetic brain activity. If you like them then well... I have bad news.
>>12684882you could steal any car at any time, drive like an idiot, run over pedestrians, get into chases and gunfights with the police, and generally rampage like a dickhead.people who weren't there don't get it but it was more than enough for us at the time.
>>12684853But enough about Fallout
>>12684968Exactly. Nobody ever fondly recalls GTA for the missions. The heart and soul of these games was chimping out on the streets.
>>12684853But enough about Ocarina of Time
I have bought 3 og xboxs to fix and each of them had saves from the gta games. Everytime the save is after the first or second mission. Did normies really buy the game to just run over people on the sidewalk for 2 hours? It doesnt matter which GTA it is, even an xbox that had saves for all 3 they only finished the first mission of each.
>>12685024Every single second hand PS2 memory card has a GTA SA save at the very first mission as well. Empty open worlds are crack to normalfags.
how many of these threads will you make to get the answer you want
This made me stop liking GTA.
>>12684853You are approaching the games with the wrong mindset. The games aren't supposed to be challenging or have a very satisfying gameplay or even just be for mindless fun. The main reason you play these is for the lore, the characters and the story in general. The immersion, the many npc's interactions and what have you. That's what makes it good. That's why GTA IV is the best one.
>>12684853I loved the fuck outta these games when I was in my teenage years. What kind of games do you like?
>>12684853>How did millions of normalfag goyim get tricked into playing these shitty games?They were fun
>why is fun game fun?
Thread is all lies.Excellent games.Why is /vr/ filled with tired opinion bait threads.
>>12684886You're stealth seething about gta6.
>>12685225nah, they don't hold up.they were great at the time though.
>>12685235Maybe true but OP is trying to make out they anre always awful with his shitty thread. Which is pointless.There are about a dozen threads just like this,for other games. It’s the lowest of low discussions.
>>12685235They hold up perfectly fine on my machine.
>>12685238 (me)It probably helps that I don't play nu-games, though.
>>12685024Yes. I just turned on cheats and fucked around with flying vehicles and spammed rocket launcher like crazy until the military got me. Sorry but it was fun, storyfags will never understand it
>>12685238yeah, some people are simple-minded enough that the magic of early open world games never wore off
>>12684853GTA3 did not look bad for when it came out it was quite impressive desu. Vice City does look pretty bad and SA looks absolutely terrible for the year it came out.
>>12685353GTA 3 holds up better than most open-world games released in the last decade.
>>12685380this board doesn't have a moderator
>>12685376this is true. it is also true that GTA3 isn't very good.
>>12685380I think I'd rather report you for being a massive faggot who takes 4chan way too seriously.
>>12684853I'm glad someone is saying it. You guys are my kind of people. the kind of people that played this shit do not play any other videogames. they were absolute wigger casuals. I remember the two IRL acquaintances I had that were obsessed the most with San Andreas became drug addict ruthless shitsacks who are probably now in prison.That being said, openworld "reallife" sim is a super hook for pretty much everybody. People long for a game where you can crash cars and kill strangers with no consequence. Me and the boys had fun screwing around in SA. Each game was better than the last, I do not like GTA3 at all, Max Payne + any racing game shits on it in its time.As cool as the crime film tryhard story, period piece settings, the period-accurate licensed radio songs, and all that are, I feel like it wasn't the mainstream appeal.>>12685024the story is fucking bonked. The objectives and difficulty spikes and tedium of driving to the mission start over and over absolutely filtered everybody. try to finish VC or SA today, it is frustrating and always was. It was so bad that it soured my impression of the entire ps2 era of western game design. Inconsistent minigame bullshit TonyHawks Underground too and many others threw so many minigame mechanics at you for random missions instead of having a core satisfying "gameplay loop" as much as I hate the termso people avoided missions and made their own loop of being reckless and avoiding cops which was fun. Honestly if the missions weren't so bad I would respect these games a lot more. >>12685132 IV is the only GTA that I respect. The story and characters and tone really worked, and the gameplay and missions didn't step on its own toes. I guess for all the rambling, my point is that this style of game benefitted from better hardware. The /vr/ ones are overrated
Why is always self-dignified autistic faggots who hate on 3D-era GTA games? I even suspect it's the same retard who posts all these threads. The complaints about how they are so, SO unfair and hard, and the brand of spite towards the people who played and enjoyed them are so specific: like they're mad that their classmates who weren't absolute autistic dweeb nerds enjoyed these games. I knew quite a few seething retards like yourself when I was a teenager. I bet you also automatically hate sports games and think of yourself as having "high standards".I've been playing games all my life. I was 12 when GTA III was released, and I'm willing to bet that by 16, I'd already played more games than you've played in your entire life. And I really, really enjoyed 3D-era GTA games. They were, and are, among my favorites. And so did many other people who meet and surpass your imaginary standards for being a Proper Videogame Enjoyer, loser. Deal with it.
>>12685407>Samefag OP proudly displays his real thoughts>dood gta is like a gateway drug!The state of /vr/ right now is astounding.
>>12685024The only reason to do all the missions was because of the stuff they unlocked
>>12685489Nigga I wanted to watch cutscenes
>>12685407there's literally nothing frustrating about san andreas' missions
>>12684853One of the few open world games where you could both run around and drive cars. Plus you could repaint and customize cars you "owned"
>cruising down Vice City at night on a motorcycle>"Self Control" by Laura Branigan is playing
>>12685493each retro GTA got a little better in that regard. Still, It is a fact turned meme that the train mission with Big Smoke filtered a ton of normies. I think it would be completely fair to say half of the total players never made it past that point. A post earlier claimed in his experience many players never even got past the 2nd mission. Personally I dropped the story during some molotov shootout mission, I hated how the game would spawn the player at the hospital and I'd have to; steal a car, lose the wanted level, buy body armor, drive to the arbitrary point on the map that the mission started, drive halfway across town for step 1, then drive to the other side of town for the easily failable mission. That structure makes it easy to say "fuck it" and screw around with cheats and the open world instead of the timed janky missions.>>12685483sorry for being a self-dignified autistic faggot, I can't help it. A contrarian who typically dislikes sports games on top of that. But I did snag the GTAs, used, and played them for a while after the hype had died down. I saw some friends engage with them deeply and show me secrets. They're cool and were super culturally relevant. But the casual normies all left their PS2s behind. You're on a board for autistic retro gaming hobbyists. It really shouldn't be surprising that autists who look at things objectively instead of being caught up in the zeitgeist will be more critical of these games. Vice City had to compete with Sunshine's movement, Need For Speed's driving, Morrowind's Open World, and Ratchet and Clank's 3D shooting just to give some 2002 examples.>those games are for gay autistic dweebsyea, where do you think you are? All I'm saying is that the 3D GTAs had a jack of all trades master of none thing going on that i found personally frustrating to /play/. They were definitely cool and impressive, just a little overrated by normies.>>12685487I'm not OP. wiggers and weed are bad tho imo
>>12685810Imagine failing GTA mission more than once...
>>12685508>radio, irl::\>radio, game::Owhy are the NPCs like this
The idea of a free movement, open world, 3D action game, particularly one that allowed random violence, was exciting. The idea that if you saw a car you liked, you could steal it and make it yours, was mind blowing. Of course the novelty has long since worn off, but for a lot of people, the freedom allowed by the 3D GTAs was a huge selling point, to the extent that I bet there were many people (myself included) who cared more about just running around, exploring the city, finding cool cars to steal, trying to get away with killing random people, and just generally fucking around than they did about the plot or missions.
>>12685810>Vice City had to compete with Super Mario Sunshine because they both have movementYes of course, much in the same way that World of Warcraft had to compete with Shadow of the Colossus because they both had horse-riding and swords>sorry for having retarded opinions; after all, this the Retarded Board and you shouldn't be surprised!Being self-aware of your own retardation does not make up for it. No, not even if you "accept it" and go "hehe that's just the way I am!". Sorry, but you should've learned this many years ago
>>12685946Nta but whats wrong with listening to radio?
>>12685973Yeah this sums it up pretty well.I will say I put hundreds of hours into 3 and VC, but I wouldn't call any of it kino. It's just something you're morbidly fascinated with as a teen.
>>12685946the radio irl thing is a you thing
the games came out in the early 00s, gta3 in 2001. imagine going from the 5th gen to having an entire playable city at ~30fps, no stilted bs like the driver games. people were naturally floored.
>>12684858/threadI never did gave a shit about the story, just run over and shoot people, the only reason I did the story was to get more areas to run over and shoot more people
>>12684853Im playing through San Andreas for the first time now and idk man, it's pretty clearly a masterpiece.The opening missions before you get ammunation is genuinely as dense on main missions as some GTA clones are over their entire runtime
>>12684853I have my own contrarian instincts but denying what gta was in the early 00s is retarded. they earned their time in the sun.
>>12685946There's an ad free Jazz station in Chicago that's amazing but otherwise yeah I don't care about Radio because the ad to content ratio sucksUnlike GTAs radio, you fucking retard
>>12685946This made me like real life radio stations.
>>12684853The gameplay is fun. The main aspect is driving and they just did that right in all 3 games. The combat is barebone but like not bad. SA had a lot of side activities that made the world more immersive and alive. VC was just our Scarface/Miami Vice the game....game...Also even Euros and Asians worship the 80s neon Miami with new wave and stuff. 3 is the one that aged kinda poorly.>>12684886Nearly every millenial played SA on PS2 or PC. The IMG Tool messing around and SAMP were huge. Also all those old tutorial videos with notepad and comfy music.
>>12686285>>12686315I'm irl radio pilled. Fuck algorithms, fuck jewtube, fuck spotify
>>12686449The US radio is uniquely bad because all the stations are owned by one company basically. But it's still not so bad. It's nice they have a lot of AM stuff
>>12686561I just listen to stuff I download, and I always block ads because they're mega annoying. I like the older ideas of radio and TV, but advertisers have just fucking ruined that shit for me now, I actually watch TV now and it's unbearable.
>>12684853But enough about Metal Gear Solid.
anyone who uses terms like 'gameplay loop', 'handcrafted', or 'openworld' (treated as a genre of game rather than a type of map) I know to immediately disregard as a pseud. without fail they're a zoomer who grew up watching shitty YT video essays on how "this random PS2 scrimblo is a work of high art" and have made this weird form of manchild superiority complex their entire personality.
>>12687225cut em some slack man, atleast they ain't got fully shitty taste by playing and idolizing modern slop
>>12686564having actually travelled I can definitively say no, this is bullshit. the US consistently has the best radio in the world; nowhere else do you get the level of variety the US has. you go just about anywhere else and it's the same handful of stations across the entire country and they all play the same generic local-language pop music and some shitty small town stations attempting to do a "local comedy" thing where they interview the town drunk and act like it's the pinnacle of human existence. In the US every state has a dozen different stations, and you can find at least one station for every conceivable genre of music. American radio is like the golden age of pirate radio, except it's all legal and legit.
>>12687232Maybe AM radio but definitely not FM radio due to the amount of ads per airtime
>>12687234There are still good independent FM stations around. The one in my area only plays maybe 10 minutes of ads every hour.
>>12684853Chimp out simulators. Inside every American is a [offensive slur for a black person.]
>>12687260I've always thought of them more as Scorsese-style epic crime films turned into video games.You can always tell whoever never played the missions based upon how the describe the game.
>>12687271>You can always tell whoever never played the missions based upon how the describe the game.The people who played GTA but never did the missions are just below average in IQ.
>>12687316Accurate.
GOAT
Boring gameplay? Driving is fun
>>12684853i only played 2 out of 3 of those never really had vice city only played it when my friend let me borrow it and i put it down didnt even bother playing anymore. San andreas is the only fun game on the ps2 besides agent under fire/nightfire seriously borestation 2 is mostly a bunch of puzzle and rpg games or 3rd person games that everyone played a million times on the ps1/n64
god you guys are such fags, I would've shoved you into a locker in high school
>>12687708this fucking loser peaked in high school
>>12684853ppl used to have these things irl called "frens". they were ppl in the same general age group that liked them enough to come over to their house and actually hang out irl. if they had PS2, youd probably end up taking turns shooting cops and/or hookers in GTA with your frens, because it was "fun"
>>12685024thats the little brother/cheatcode save retard
GTA3 was fucking revolutionary when it came out, was fun as fuck and the following games improved upon it tenfold.
>>12684853I liked 3 at the time, but VC surpasses it in every way. I'll agree that the gameplay is clunky outside of the cars, but the driving gameplay is good. The game is 50% about cruising around, listening to music and soaking in the atmosphere though. Never liked SA and yes it's for the obvious reason, I get enough of that type of 'atmosphere' irl
>>12684853
Only 3 is shit
>>12691247*Vice City
>>12684853san andreas gameplay is great and the game is full of soul
>>12684853Get an Xbox with component cables. Cleans up great
>>12684875this would also like toa dd that from vice city onwards the voice acting and cutscenes were pretty cool, even though the stories themselves where pretty fucking messy and disjointed.
>>12691750this. really wish that a the tiem rockstar would release an improved version of the first 2 3d games with the gameplay improvements of san andreas.we have the definitive edition today but it is not the same thing.liberty and vice city stories are also decent games. Just beat them both back to back.
>>12684853None of the GTA clones or GTA-likes had the scale or the fun of the GTA games. Maybe with the exception of RPGs, which were the series’ only real competition. Take *Yakuza*, for example—it had a static world despite its fun brawler mechanics. Rockstar even tried to copy that with *Bully* and other smaller games, but they never managed to go that far. Others just didn’t have the investment. *Mafia* was great but had poor pacing; *Postal 2* was also very niche and survived on controversy. I say this as someone who hates how “normies” play *GTA* by default and don’t want to play anything else.
>>12684893I had the same experience with a pirated copy of GTA 1. It was just amazing. Later I tried GTA III and lost interest pretty quickly, because I had already had that cherry thoroughly popped, and the extra immersion provided by the fully 3D world was balanced out by the extra clumsiness provided by same.
